Gear: TaylorMade Spider GT putters
Price: $350 each
Specs: Mid-size mallets with steel weight extensions and tungsten back weights. Aluminum chassis and grooved face insert. Matte black, silver/black, red/black and white/blue colorways.
Available: March 4
Not that long ago, most elite golfers and recreational players used heel-toe-weighted blade putters. Mallets were for golfers who needed help or who tried to make a straight-back-straight-through putting stroke. But starting in 2016, TaylorMade began having success with mid-sized mallets that were ideally balanced and weighted for golfers who have a slightly arched stroke. The first Spider putters caught on because blade users could keep using the same stroke with the added forgiveness of a mallet.
Since then, TaylorMade has refined and worked to improve the performance of the Spider line. In 2019 there was Spider X, and in 2021 the company released Spider ES.
